Monotonous \Mo*not"o*nous\, a. [Gr. ?; mo`nos alone, single + ?
tone. See Tone.]
Uttered in one unvarying tone; continued with dull
uniformity; characterized by monotony; without change or
variety; wearisome. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
monotonous
adj 1: sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch; "the owl's
faint monotonous hooting" [syn: monotone, monotonic]
2: tediously repetitious or lacking in variety; "a humdrum
existence; all work and no play"; "nothing is so
monotonous as the sea" [syn: humdrum]
WordNet (r) 2.0
113 Moby Thesaurus words for "monotonous":
alliterating, alliterative, articulated, assonant, banal, banausic,
belabored, blah, boring, broken-record, catenated, ceaseless,
chanting, chiming, cliche-ridden, colorless, commonplace,
concatenated, connected, constant, continual, continued,
continuing, continuous, cyclical, dim, dingdong, direct, drab,
drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, endless,
everlasting, everyday, featureless, gapless, gray, harping, ho-hum,
humdrum, immediate, incessant, interminable, invariable,
jingle-jangle, jog-trot, jogtrot, joined, jointless, labored,
linked, long-winded, mechanical, monotone, monotonic, never-ending,
nonstop, ordinary, pedestrian, perennial, periodic, poky, prolix,
prosaic, recurrent, repetitious, repetitive, rhymed, rhyming,
round-the-clock, routine, run-of-the-mill, running, same, samely,
seamless, serried, singsong, sleep-inducing, smooth, soporific,
stable, steady, stodgy, straight, tedious, tiresome, tiring,
treadmill, twenty-four-hour, unbroken, unceasing, undifferentiated,
unending, uneventful, unexciting, uniform, uninteresting,
unintermitted, unintermittent, unintermitting, uninterrupted,
unrelieved, unremitting, unstopped, unvaried, unvarying, wearisome,
wearying
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
humdrum, monotone, monotonic
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